Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.